* * ART, ART HISTORY & VISUAL STUDIES * *

NASHER MUSEUM OF ART

Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library
July 2 - October 18, 2009

Lewis Hine, Young Mill Boys, 1912, gelatin silver print, 4 9/16 x 6 1/2 inches. The Duke University Special Collections Library.

Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library features more than eighty original photographs, films, personal artifacts, and rare published portfolios, many of which will be on view for the first time. The exhibition includes photographic material from the 1860s to the present, selected from Duke's Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library.

The exhibition was organized by the curatorial team of Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks Senior Curator at the Nasher Museum; Margaret Sartor, instructor at the Center for Documentary Studies; Karen Glynn, Visual Materials Archivist at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library; Patricia Leighten, professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies; and Margaret Morrison, a Duke student intern at the Nasher Museum.

The exhibition is complemented by the book Beauty Isn't Enough: Building an Archive of the Documentary Image at Duke University (2009, Duke University Libraries), highlighting the acquisition of contemporary documentary photography made over the last thirty years.

The exhibition will be on view at the Nasher Museum from July 2 through October 18, 2009.

Please see: http://www.nasher.duke.edu/exhibitions_beauty.php

DUKE IN VENICE

Museo Archeologico with Reconstruction of Grimani Collection, Venice.

Duke's AAHVS Ph.D. program collaborated with the doctoral program of the University of Venice to offer a 5-week seminar for graduate students on the theme of "Patrons, Collectors, Merchants, and Their Spaces," which examined the history of collecting and display from the Early Modern to the Contemporary periods. The program was organized by Prof. Caroline Bruzelius in collaboration with Prof. Donatella Calabi of the Architectural University of Venice. Professors Gennifer Weisenfeld, Sara Galletti, Neil McWilliam, Richard Powell, and Hans Van Miegroet participated from Duke.

Site visit to the Palazzo Grimani, Venice.

Site visit to the Palazzo Grimani, Venice.

Students participated in lectures, discussions, and site visits, using both Venice and Paris for visits to a series of different types of examples of collecting and display: the Cabinet des Dessins at the Louvre, the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Fondation Custodia in Paris, for example, as well as the Bienale and the Palazzo Grimani in Venice. Five graduate students from Duke were able to attend the seminar and had the opportunity to live and work in Venice for the duration of the program.

Site visit to the Palazzo Grimani, Venice.

Prof. Bernard Ailkema and Dr. Rhea Block looking at drawings with the students at the Custodia Foundation, Paris.

FACULTY MEMBER FEATURED IN DUKE MAGAZINE

Prof. Kristine Stiles was one of twenty-five Duke scholars and leaders featured in the 25th Anniversary Special Edition of Duke Magazine (May-June 2009). The selected members of the Duke community were asked "to project ahead twenty-five years and imagine what life will be like in the year 2034." The magazine goes on to explain: "All of these essayists have appeared in our pages, some of them with regularity, as profile subjects, expert voices, or newsmakers. Some emphasize a satisfying continuity in the areas in which they work. Others embrace the excitement of dramatic change."

Stiles' essay, "ART WILL BE....2009-2034," can be read at the following link: http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/25/faculty/21.html

GRADUATE STUDENT SPEAKS AT VENICE CONFERENCE

Gino Severini, Blue Dancer, 1912, oil and sequins. Mattioli Collection, Milan.

Graduate student Zoe Jones will present a paper entitled "A Transnational Bohemia: The Futurist Art of Gino Severini" at the 4th International Conference on the Arts in Society in Venice this summer. The conference is from July 28-31, 2009.

AAHVS VISUAL ARTS COURSES FOR FALL 2009

ARTSVIS 54
Introduction to Visual Practice
Instructor: Raquel Salvatella de Prada

ARTSVIS 100.01
Drawing
Instructor: William Fick

ARTSVIS 100.02
Drawing
Instructor: William Fick

ARTSVIS 101
Book Illustration
Instructor: Merrill Shatzman

ARTSVIS 110
Sculpture
Instructor: William Noland

ARTSVIS 120
Painting
Instructor: Emily Wilmoth

ARTSVIS 127
Graphic Design
Instructor: Emily Wilmoth

ARTSVIS 130
Printmaking: Silkscreen
Instructor: Merrill Shatzman

ARTSVIS 173
Gaming the System
Instructor: Casey Alt

SUMMER NEWSBYTE PUBLICATION

Palazzo Grimani, ceiling decoration, Venice.

NewsByte will be issued monthy during June, July, and August 2009.

Please refer all relevant departmental information for inclusion in our weekly announcement to John Taormina, Director, Visual Resources Center, at taormina@duke.edu.